A Photography Book/Website with Picutres Taken of Slums

StudioAudience

I remember browsing through a thread on the PA forums awhile back and coming across a link to this website containing pictures taken of slums/ghettos with a disposable camera from sometime in the 1900s? I think it was done by a hitchhiker or some such, and he compiled the pictures into a book that's no longer being printed? His website had a gallery of a lot of the pictures, however. Does anyone happen to know the name of the photographer or the book? Thanks.

X3x3non

I think I know what you mean. I too have been looking for it again. The other bit of info I remember is that most of the pictures were taken in New York because I remember someone commenting how much the city has turned around since then. Lots of shots of drug addicts in Harlem.

StudioAudience

Yup, I think we're thinking of the same one. I remember there was this one series with a drug addict in an abandoned building. His leg was rotting/infected, but he was still injecting drugs into it.

Grizzled

I found a thread with tons of pictures on another forum:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=300803

The first set of pictures looks like what you are describing, unfortunately the poster didn't provide a source. Lots of interesting photos there, though.

EDIT: On the second page is listed a book called "Photographs from in the South Bronx of America" by Mel Rosenthal. Is that it?

Gaffero

Are you thinking of Jacob Riis ala "How the Other Half Lives?" He was a muckraker/photographer from your time period (which is very vague), well known for haunting photographs of slums and poor tenements at the turn of the 20th century.